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#411557 1-Dec-2010 11:42

johnr:

harldy anyone outside but what about the users in Buildings close by

Yes I do realize that. It's more or less since people have been reporting bad speeds around that area. I would say since it's in City Centre it will be just congestion. Might try another couple of tests tonight before I head home and see if things change.

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#411561 1-Dec-2010 11:49

Any speed test is a snapshot, based on cell load at the time. If I do 4 or 5 in a row I get variations in download speeds from 1.7-3.5Mb/s and 0.6-1.2Mb/s in upload.

If you're standing in plain view of a site I doubt which way you hold the phone (unless it's a death grip on your iP4) will make much difference as you'll have a solid signal.

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#411567 1-Dec-2010 11:59

oxnsox: Any speed test is a snapshot, based on cell load at the time. If I do 4 or 5 in a row I get variations in download speeds from 1.7-3.5Mb/s and 0.6-1.2Mb/s in upload.

If you're standing in plain view of a site I doubt which way you hold the phone (unless it's a death grip on your iP4) will make much difference as you'll have a solid signal.

Ive got a 3GS and while it doesn't have a death grip position it definitely makes a difference unless you are less that a meter from a cell site antenna like i am now .

BTW it is an in building system, otherwise i might not be quite as happy :)

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#411596 1-Dec-2010 12:59

johnr:
Ham: Maybe my iPhone is broken... im getting .44 down and .09 up on 3G. GPRS won't even load a page most of the time.

Are you in a LOW 3G coverage area?

What model iphone have you got?

No. 4-5 bars 3GS running latest iOS. Tried a couple of spots around Chch and usually it's that slow, the odd occurrence I will get above 1mbps but very rare.

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#411617 1-Dec-2010 14:15

Ham:
johnr:
Ham: Maybe my iPhone is broken... im getting .44 down and .09 up on 3G. GPRS won't even load a page most of the time.

Are you in a LOW 3G coverage area?

What model iphone have you got?

No. 4-5 bars 3GS running latest iOS. Tried a couple of spots around Chch and usually it's that slow, the odd occurrence I will get above 1mbps but very rare.

If you get a chance try a iphone4

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#411627 1-Dec-2010 14:32

Ham:
johnr:
Ham: Maybe my iPhone is broken... im getting .44 down and .09 up on 3G. GPRS won't even load a page most of the time.

Are you in a LOW 3G coverage area?

What model iphone have you got?

No. 4-5 bars 3GS running latest iOS. Tried a couple of spots around Chch and usually it's that slow, the odd occurrence I will get above 1mbps but very rare.

The speeds are your iPhone, not the network.
The iPhone has poor modem firmware which can cause some faults with connecting to Mobile Networks.
If you get a chance, drop into Vodafone and get a Android Device :)

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#411705 1-Dec-2010 18:50

johnr:
Ham:
johnr:
Ham: Maybe my iPhone is broken... im getting .44 down and .09 up on 3G. GPRS won't even load a page most of the time.

Are you in a LOW 3G coverage area?

What model iphone have you got?

No. 4-5 bars 3GS running latest iOS. Tried a couple of spots around Chch and usually it's that slow, the odd occurrence I will get above 1mbps but very rare.

If you get a chance try a iphone4

Lol. Is it on the house? If not I'll live with this one for another 8 months, then look at my options.

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#411761 1-Dec-2010 21:03

michaelmurfy:
Ham:
johnr:
Ham: Maybe my iPhone is broken... im getting .44 down and .09 up on 3G. GPRS won't even load a page most of the time.

Are you in a LOW 3G coverage area?

What model iphone have you got?

No. 4-5 bars 3GS running latest iOS. Tried a couple of spots around Chch and usually it's that slow, the odd occurrence I will get above 1mbps but very rare.

The speeds are your iPhone, not the network.
The iPhone has poor modem firmware which can cause some faults with connecting to Mobile Networks.
If you get a chance, drop into Vodafone and get a Android Device :)

This is not entirely true. I get really good speeds in AU with my Optus SIM.

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#411851 1-Dec-2010 23:46

Here is a speedtest I did this evening close to Auckland CBD while attached to the live Vodafone 3G+ network not over WIFI either using my iphone 4

https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/blogcd304bbff96e7216a2e05340626c4763.jpg

(was hoping image was going to show instead of URL)

5.4mbps DL
2.1mbps UL

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#411856 1-Dec-2010 23:53

Are higher data caps on the way to match the increase in speed? That would be nice :)

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#411859 2-Dec-2010 00:00

I did a speed test via Tethering
20 mb file from a website
took 3 mins at just on 100kbps
realise now I should have run this outside as well.
then did a speed test.
https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/blog6241b25a0c537570ce7be3ff2ca6881d.jpg
I am not far from a cell site in Te Rapa Hamilton
The speedtest was on the iphone only

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#411871 2-Dec-2010 00:31

I wish Christchurch got this special treatment. Just did a speedtest from home, had to force my phone into connecting to the 3G network (as usual here) - once it was connected I was getting full bars.

Speedtest (Christchurch):
297ms Ping
630kbps Down
922kbps Up

That's in Northwood Christchurch, as soon as I stopped the phone from being forced to connect to 3G it dropped back down to GPRS, how depressing. I wish I could get the kind of speeds as Auckland is getting.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S, running Android 2.2.

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#411872 2-Dec-2010 00:45

michaelmurfy: I wish Christchurch got this special treatment. Just did a speedtest from home, had to force my phone into connecting to the 3G network (as usual here) - once it was connected I was getting full bars.

Speedtest (Christchurch):
297ms Ping
630kbps Down
922kbps Up

That's in Northwood Christchurch, as soon as I stopped the phone from being forced to connect to 3G it dropped back down to GPRS, how depressing. I wish I could get the kind of speeds as Auckland is getting.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S, running Android 2.2.

The work done over last weekend was not done for any area it was a network wide change

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#411880 2-Dec-2010 01:37

johnr:

The work done over last weekend was not done for any area it was a network wide change

John

Indeed, it's working though :) That's all that counts.

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#414808 8-Dec-2010 22:28

I was visiting Clarks Beach-Manukau -south auckland this afternoon and did a speed test. I was most impressed. The guy I was with said this was way faster than his ADSL on roughly 600 kbps.

Test Date: 8 December 2010 3:40 PM
Connection Type: Cellular
Server: Tauranga
Download: 3516 kbps
Upload: 1624 kbps
Ping: 240 ms

External IP: 121.90.16.212
Internal IP: 121.90.16.212
Latitude: -37.1344
Longitude: 174.7086

https://www.speedtest.net/iphone/76849286.png

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